Celebrating our Members & Three Newly-Archived Women Artists

 The Archives is revealing its new look, with a Grand Reopening on Friday March1, from 5:30 – 8:30pm at the opening reception for our 2024 Annual Members Exhibition.  Now in its 10th year, this show has become the museum’s most anticipated yearly event. Active members are invited to contribute one work in any medium including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, assemblage, […]

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Spring 2024: Infrastructure Repair

The early February news that neither FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, nor CAN Triennial will take place in 2025 marks the end of an era. From 2016 (when FRONT began planning, and visions of CAN Triennial began to percolate) to January 2024 (when both organizations were still making plans for their third exhibitions), Cleveland had a place in […]

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Fantastic & Resolute: Amy Casey at the Butler Institute of American Art

It’s a precarious landscape, at once intimate and vast, that flips the uneasy switch at the back of one’s neck. It’s a magnificent wreck that somehow amplifies the joy in that moment balanced between destruction and creation. It’s the fragility of one small brick spinning out from an enormous cyclone of urban decay. As Amy Casey says about her work, […]

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Wellness, Represented: University Hospitals and Deep Roots Experience

At the intersection of health, wellness, and representation lies art: this winter, 21 works by Black and Brown artists living in Northeast Ohio were acquired by University Hospital’s (UH) corporate art collection. Works by Asia Armour, Bryant “Bee1ne” Anthony, Dayz Whun, Aldonte Flonnoy, Jevonte “Jae Capo” King-Woods, Pahpy/SammieDoesIt, Bobbi Reagins, Vivica Satterwhite, and Emanuel Wallace are now installed in two […]

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Photo Poets Retrospective

Photo poets launched in November 2021, featuring the work of emerging artist Vivica Satterwhite, whose work was on the cover! Since then we have featured nine artists in print, ranging from hobbyists to professionals, with styles ranging from documentary, photojournalism and architectural-based work. Each photographer states their own definition of a photo poet, taking the title and making it their […]

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Spring 2024 Events

Your easy, chronological guide to exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios, and museums coming in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN Journal. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, and the change of seasons, we encourage you to check with galleries for current protocols. Some in-person […]

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Akron Black Artist Guild, Revisiting August Wilson

It’s that time of year again. No, not the snowy, freezing cold part—but rather the moment when I’m irresistibly drawn back to my bookshelf to revisit one of August Wilson’s hauntingly poetic plays. Wilson, who succumbed to liver cancer in 2005, is celebrated for his American Century Cycle, a monumental series of ten plays chronicling the twentieth century. These works […]

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Spring Exhibitions at the Allen Memorial Art Museum

This season at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, our galleries contain an assortment of themes that delve into the intersectionality of art, culture, and history. Don’t miss our related events, offered several times a month and free for all. For a complete list, visit amam.oberlin.edu/events. Spring 2024 Exhibitions The Body, the Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity Artists in this exhibition explore […]

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What’s Up and Coming at Art House

Currently on view at Art House is Artist Inventory Challenge Selections 2017–2023. Inspired by a stockpile of eclectic materials, the artworks include intricate sculptures, complex paintings, lively collages, and contemplative drawings and prints. ABC Chili Cook-Off (Artists+Bowls+Chili), is our yearly friend- and fundraiser. From 1 to 4 pm on Saturday, March 9, eight to ten chili contenders with vie for […]

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